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Men of the World
Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times
- Jeff Hearn - Huddersfield University, UK
July 2015 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Men of the World will be seized upon by academics and activists facing up to the persistence, proliferation and transnationalization of patriarchies.
- Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London and University of Warwick
"This is an important, thought-provoking and incredibly timely book from one of the leading scholars in the field of men and masculinities. I cannot praise this wonderful book highly enough.”
- Richard Collier, Newcastle University
"In this lively and engaging new book, Hearn looks back over nearly 40 years in feminist-framed studies of men and masculinities, and also forward to the futuristic scenarios through which gender power is currently evolving in transpatriarchal contexts."
- Terrell Carver, University of Bristol
What have men and globalization got to do with each other? How are men shaping and being shaped by globalization? How is globalization gendered? Why do many books on globalization fail to discuss gender relations? And why do many of those that do omit an explicit and developed analysis of men and gender relations?
Men of the World brings together autobiographical reflections and memories on changing personal locations, contemporary empirical studies on major power processes, and up to date theoretical development. It considers the implications of debates on globalization for analyzing men, and the implications of debates on men and masculinities for globalization, transnational change and transnational patriarchies, as part of engagement and critique focused on the global North.
Specific chapters address diverse transnational issues: transnational bodies and emotions in violence, violation and militarism; transnational organizing across states, big business, global finance, and activism; transnational movements in the environment, migration, and information and communication technologies and sexualities; and finally, challenges to the gender category of 'men'.
An essential read for students and researchers of gender, sexuality, masculinity, intersectionality, and globalization across the social sciences.
Jeff Hearn is Guest Faculty Research Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.
- Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London and University of Warwick
"This is an important, thought-provoking and incredibly timely book from one of the leading scholars in the field of men and masculinities. I cannot praise this wonderful book highly enough.”
- Richard Collier, Newcastle University
"In this lively and engaging new book, Hearn looks back over nearly 40 years in feminist-framed studies of men and masculinities, and also forward to the futuristic scenarios through which gender power is currently evolving in transpatriarchal contexts."
- Terrell Carver, University of Bristol
What have men and globalization got to do with each other? How are men shaping and being shaped by globalization? How is globalization gendered? Why do many books on globalization fail to discuss gender relations? And why do many of those that do omit an explicit and developed analysis of men and gender relations?
Men of the World brings together autobiographical reflections and memories on changing personal locations, contemporary empirical studies on major power processes, and up to date theoretical development. It considers the implications of debates on globalization for analyzing men, and the implications of debates on men and masculinities for globalization, transnational change and transnational patriarchies, as part of engagement and critique focused on the global North.
Specific chapters address diverse transnational issues: transnational bodies and emotions in violence, violation and militarism; transnational organizing across states, big business, global finance, and activism; transnational movements in the environment, migration, and information and communication technologies and sexualities; and finally, challenges to the gender category of 'men'.
An essential read for students and researchers of gender, sexuality, masculinity, intersectionality, and globalization across the social sciences.
Jeff Hearn is Guest Faculty Research Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Introducing men of the world
Which men? Which worlds?
Locating selves
Deconstructing the dominant: Back to gendered globalization
From patriarchy to transpatriarchies
Transpatriarchies in practice
Bodies of emotion: violences and violations
Structures of organizing: empires, corporations and activisms
Processes of flows (1): movements, environments and migrations
Processes of flows (2): ICTs and sexualities
Transforming transpatriarchies: possible futures
Postscript: Towards the abolition of “men”?
Men of the World is an important.. illuminating and comprehensive book.. for students and scholars of gender, sexualities, and globalization... One of his best achievements is showing how intersections between gender, sexualities, and ICTs not only reproduce patriarchy and hegemony of men through the interlocked aspects of transpatriarchies (i.e., embodied experiences, structures, and processes) but also how men’s sexualities are constructed, transformed, and regulated within the network societies.
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